FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, November 13, 2025

WHEN: Thursday, November 13, 17:00 – 17:30 Belem time (UTC-3)

WHERE: Blue Zone, Area C entrance (outdoors), near the Badge Scan Exit

WHAT: Agrifood systems are the foundations of economies, cultures, and ecosystems around the world, directly employing almost 1/3 of the world’s population, the majority of whom are smallholder women in Asia and Africa. However, the current industrial, corporate-dominated agricultural system relies mainly on fossil fuels, contributing a third of global greenhouse gas emissions. The sector is uniquely placed as a driver of emissions while also being extremely vulnerable to the climate crisis. The brunt of these intertwined food and climate crises is borne by the most vulnerable – women, children, Indigenous Peoples, and small food producers. But tomorrow, they come together to fight back!

While world leaders are at talk shops, movements from the Global South demand an immediate and radical shift in food and agriculture systems. This includes transforming the financial architecture for food systems, shifting to human and agroecological pathways and transitioning to low emissions methods of food production.

WHO: Campaigners from the Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD), World Animal Protection, Global Forest Coalition (GFC), Artivist Network, and other members of the Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice.

Spokespeople from global/regional movements spanning the issues of climate, food, and agriculture will be available for interviews throughout the action.

About the Organizers

This action is being organized by members and allies of the Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice.

Following the mobilization, photos will be available to download at this link.

QUOTES:

Pang Delgra, Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development – Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice, Food & Agriculture WG Co-Coordinator: “Food, land, and water are human rights, not commodities to be traded for the profits of agribusiness and their allies in governments. We assert this right in every space we can, because we know they won’t cede it to us. Here at the UNFCCC, the Sharm el-Sheik Joint Work on Climate Action in Agriculture has failed us because of Parties’ lack of political will to side with those most vulnerable to the climate crisis. Instead, they pander to corporates, jumping on every opportunity they can to earn a profit.”

Isis Álvarez, Brighter Green-Just Food Transition Network: “Why don’t we call industrial agriculture what it truly is? A major polluter, a system that causes hunger, land and water grabbing, cannot be sustainable. Including distractions such as sustainable intensification of meat production, digitalization of agriculture, or climate-smart practices only exacerbates the threats to life, as these systems are designed to produce profit, not food.”

Marie Cosquer, Action against Hunger – Climate Action Network Agriculture Co-coordinator: “Multinational corporations of the food and agriculture industry keep undermining the multilateral processes of the UNFCCC by pushing false solutions such as GMOs or pesticides. Climate policies must align with a Just Transition for food systems. That means upholding the right to food for all and protecting the rights of small-scale producers who actually feed the world.”

Contacts: 

Hannah | World Animal Protection | [email protected] | +61 0434 269 048

Esthappen S | Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice | [email protected] 

Isabel | Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development | [email protected] | +63 926 734 5712